Corporate jargon starting with M or N
35 terms of corporate jargon starting with M or N, from M&A to numbers game. Moving forward means from now on, and noted means I read it.
Every term under M and N
M
- M&A
- buying companies
- Mergers and acquisitions: companies combining or buying each other.
- made redundant
- laid off
- British for losing your job because the role is cut.
- managed out
- pushed to leave
- Made to leave through pressure, not a firing.
- mandatory fun
- forced fun
- Social events you are expected to attend and enjoy.
- matrixed organization
- two bosses
- A company where staff report to more than one manager.
- meeting fatigue
- worn out by meetings
- Tiredness from too many meetings, video calls most of all.
- microshifting
- work in short blocks
- Splitting the workday into short blocks around the rest of your life.
- milestone
- checkpoint
- A checkpoint in a project, usually with a date that moves.
- mission critical
- essential
- The business stops working without it.
- Mission meant an aircraft sent on an operation by 1929 in American English and a spacecraft flight by 1962; critical has meant essential to the outcome since about 1600.
- mission statement
- official purpose
- A sentence saying what a company is for.
- monetize
- make money from
- Find a way to charge for something.
- moonlighting
- second job
- Working a second job outside your main one.
- mouse jiggler
- fake activity gadget
- A gadget or app that moves the cursor to stay online.
- move the goalposts
- change the rules
- Change what success means after the work has started.
- moving forward
- from now on
- From now on. Often said just before a new rule.
- moving parts
- pieces in play
- The separate pieces of a project that all have to work.
- moving target
- keeps changing
- A goal or requirement that changes while you work toward it.
- MQL
- warm-ish lead
- Marketing qualified lead: someone marketing thinks is ready for sales.
- MRR
- monthly subscription income
- Monthly recurring revenue: what subscriptions bring in each month.
- MVP
- first basic version
- Minimum viable product: the simplest version that can be tested on users.
N
- NDA
- secrecy agreement
- Non-disclosure agreement: a contract to keep something confidential.
- net-net
- bottom line
- The final result after everything is counted.
- new normal
- how it is now
- Worse conditions everyone is now expected to accept.
- nine to five
- office hours
- A regular office job, whatever hours it really takes.
- ninja
- quiet rockstar
- A rockstar who is also expected not to make a fuss.
- north star
- main goal
- The one goal every other decision is meant to serve.
- NPS
- would you recommend us
- Net promoter score: a survey of how likely customers are to recommend you.
- numbers game
- volume wins
- Success that comes from trying many times, not from aim.
Before M and N: L. After M and N: O. All letters: corporate jargon.